Alison Joslyn was biking through Shark Valley in Everglades National Park when she spotted an American alligator clamped onto a large Burmese python, chewing on the snake before swimming off with it still locked in its jaws.

Ahead of the Florida Python Challenge in July 2026, see what the bite of the snakes' powerful jaws looks like.

Brandon Welty, a python researcher with Croc Docs, holds up an antenna and receiver to track where a male python during breeding season on March 11, 2026 in the interior of the northern Everglades. Ashley Miznazi amiznazi@miamiherald.com

A team of Burmese python hunters caught a record breaking 8,000 pounds in snake this season. Meet the man leading the crusade.

For the animals and plants native to the Florida Everglades, the removal of invasive species like the Burmese python is a tough job that someone’s got to do. But for many military veterans who help out with the task, it has become an opportunity for a ...

The invasive pythons number in the thousands and have unleashed havoc across more than 1,000 square miles of the Everglades region ecosystem.

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"Not the snake you want to crawl all over you," Hervey Bay Snake Catchers in Australia wrote about one of the snakes pulled from the toilet Hervey Bay Snake Catchers A man in Australia recently found a python waiting in his toilet twice in one week.